Chandrasekar, 15, is youngest to pursue MTech course

CHENNAI: S Chandrasekar, a 15-year-old from Tirunelveli, has become theyoungest person to pursue an MTech course at the Indian Institute ofTechnology here.He scored 99.32 per cent marks in the aptitude test for MTech computerscience and gained entry to the institution for this year's course.
"His admission to the MTech course was on expected lines. He was aiming forit," Chandrasekar' s father Subramaniam, an auditor by profession, said overthe telephone. The child prodigy had bagged the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineercertificate when he was 10 and received a Cisco certified network associatecertificate a year later.

Chandrasekar had been awarded a double promotion in his school, BellMatriculation Higher Secondary School, at Tirunelveli and had completedschooling by 12. After being allowed to pursue a Bachelor in Computer Application course bythe Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli, he completed thecourse from Kalasalingam College of Engineering at Srivilliputtur.

Chandrasekar, who has published a paper on Intrusion Detection Systems: ASurvey in September 2005, has big plans. The teenager said he wanted toconcentrate on Information Security and Cryptography, his favouritesubjects. To top it all, Chandrasekar cherishes his role model, Infosys chief N RNarayanamurthy, "for his values". "I admire the way he (Narayanamurthy) leads others," he said.

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